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Alzheimer's Foundation of America is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide optimal care and services to individuals confronting dementia, and to their caregivers and families-through member organizations dedicated to improving quality of life. The ASA offers a toll-free question hotline, educational materials for patients and caregivers, and referrals to professionals who care for Alzheimer's patients.
Clinical Trials Education Series (CTES), developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is a collection of more than 20 multimedia resources to educate cancer patients, health care professionals, advocates, and the general public about cancer prevention and treatment clinical trials. The resources include workbooks, vides, booklets, and brochures.
The Council for Health Education and Development, LLC (CFHED) is a small business that provides training and products in several areas of healthcare. CFHED has trained over 1,000 caregivers through its "hands-on" family caregiver training classes, focused on actual, practical care training and immediate stress relief to caregivers. Learn more information on all classes, CFHED's available services, and basic facts about some of the most frequent caregiver situations occurring in our population through this site.
Family Caregiver Alliance: National Consensus Report on Caregiver Assessment - This groundbreaking two-part report from the National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance calls for significant improvement in health care and long-term care that relies too much on families without recognizing and assessing family caregivers' own support and health needs.
The Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) is a five-year grant based out of Boston University's School of Social Work. This program is dedicated to advancing social work practice with older adults and their families through free and low-cost continuing education events regionally, online and through the mail, research, and policy initiatives.
The National Private Duty Association (NPDA) is a non-profit national voice for organizations that provide private duty home care services and an advocate for services which benefit the consumers for whom they care: seniors, children, persons with disabilities, those with chronic health conditions and anyone whose quality of life can be improved by having a care worker help in their home.
Some Things Only a Woman Can Do, developed by the Society for Women's Health Research, provides women who volunteer to participate in medical research with free informational materials.
Geriatrics at Your Fingertips - The American Geriatrics Society resource, Geriatrics At Your Fingertips (GAYF), focuses on the evaluation and management of the diseases and disorders that most commonly affect older persons in various healthcare settings.
BenefitsCheckUp - a service of the National Council on Aging. On this site seniors or members of their family can fill out a confidential questionnaire which then compares their information with eligibility requirements for federal programs such as Social Security, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Weatherization or state-administered programs such as pharmacy assistance, vocational rehabilitation and in-home services. Users then receive a printable report that tells them which programs they may likely qualify for and where to go to enroll.
Access to Benefits Coalition - a service of the National Council on Aging. Ensures that Medicare beneficiaries with limited incomes know about and can make the best use of all available resources for accessing prescription drugs and reducing their costs.
Johns Hopkins Health Alerts, developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine, offers free information about symptoms, remedies, and the latest treatment options available for Alzheimer's disease and dementia patients and caregivers.
Maturity Health Matters, developed by the Food and Drug Administration, is a free, electronic newsletter for older adults, their families and caregivers, and is published three times a year.
The Open Road: American Looks at Aging - This public television documentary explores the opportunities and obstacles that America faces as the Baby Boomers near retirement age in the coming years. Underwritten by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the National Council on the Aging (NCOA), The Open Road uses insightful stories of ordinary people in the US who are confronting social, economic and cultural issues as they move into the "third stage" of their lives.
Eldercare Locator is a national toll-free directory assistance public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging -- (800) 677-1116. The primary goal of the service is to promote awareness of and improve access to state, area agency and local community aging programs and services.
FirstGov for Seniors is a portal site of FirstGov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information. The primary goals of FirstGov for Seniors are 1) to provide access to all government sites that provide services for senior citizens, such as Social Security Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Administration on Aging, the Department of Veterans Affairs, etc.; and 2) to give older Americans the option of conducting their government business electronically, along with the ability to transact business with a wide range of government agencies and programs.
Medicare - The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare. Information on traditional fee-for-service Medicare coverage and Medicare + Choice plans, comparing Medicap plans and nursing homes, finding a participating physician, prescription drug assistance programs and much more.
Social Security Online - The Official U.S.
Government Website of the Social Security Administration.
Healthfinder - A gateway site to help consumers find health and human services information quickly. Healthfinder includes links to more than 1,250 Web sites, including more than 250 federal sites and 1,000 state, local, not- for-profit, university and other consumer health resources.
MEDLINEplus, a service of the Naional Library of Mediciine, provides a rich array of evaluated health and disease-related web resources for the consumer.
National Institute on Aging promotes healthy aging by conducting and supporting biomedical, social, behavioral research, and public education.
NIH Health Information Page - Provides a single access point to the consumer health information resources of the National Institutes of Health, including the NIH Health Information Index, NIH publications and clearinghouses and the Combined Health Information Database.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. MEDLINE is the world's most extensive collection of published medical information, coordinated by the National Library of Medicine.
Administration on Aging. Collection of statistics covering issues such as population and housing, population by US state, health trends, and mobility.
AgingStats.gov - Web site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics Aging. The Forum's comprehensive report Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being. Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics can be accessed and downloaded at no charge from this site.
NCHS-Aging Activities. National Center for Health Statistics Division of Data Services 6525 Belcrest Road Hyattsville, MD 20782-2003 (301)458-4636.
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